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Turbulence & Fragility: Prompting-Based Experiments are Sensitive to Stray Details (And other lessons for new researchers.).

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An essay on LessWrong argues that prompting-based experiments on large language models are sensitive to stray details, making results fragile. It draws lessons for new researchers in the field.

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“Many interesting experiments can be done with prompt engineering to elicit behavior from LLMs and attempt to determine what their drives are; what behaviors they are at risk of as general patterns rather than when prompted in specific directions.”
LessWrong, 21 Sept 2026, 19:04.

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